Getting Started with Decentralized Identity for SLED Agencies

Managing identity data for state agencies, localities, and educational institutions is complex. Users must share sensitive personal information and authenticate through multiple identity providers - all of which can access their data, creating an invasive, friction-filled user experience laden with compliance risks.

Decentralized identity represents a massive paradigm shift that will protect the privacy of users’ data and let them control how their identity information is collected and stored. PingOne Neo verifies a user’s true identity and then issues a reusable digital credential that they control.

This conversation with Pedro Barreda and Darrell Geusz from Ping Identity provided perspective on the decentralized identity landscape specific to SLED agencies and how PingOne Neo can facilitate sharing personal data while protecting users’ privacy and mitigating fraud and regulatory concerns.

Attendees learned how to use decentralized identity to:

• Reduce the need to collect and store customer’s sensitive personal identifiable information (PII)
• Streamline authentication and proof of eligibility for services or benefits
• Improve privacy by allowing users to maintain ownership of their data and selectively provide consent to share their PII